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| Re: How prevent Eclipse from overwriting its settings with the Oomph user.setup settings? [message #1784945 is a reply to message #1784913] |
Fri, 06 April 2018 08:29   |
 Per Mildner
Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009 |
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Thanks.
I am only an end-user of the Eclipse Java IDE (for Java development writing an IDE for my own language), and I do not use or know Oomph. For my kind of user all the workarounds (thanks!) are too hidden, and the default behavior of quietly overwriting my more recent settings reminds me of browser hijackers. This is not a good user experience.
From an end-user perspective [no pun intended] the Settings Recorder is very in-your-face, with little information to guide the decision on whether to turn it on or not. It sounds harmless enough "Record my settings, yeah why not?". Once the end-user gets annoyed by the extra dialog every time she changes some setting, and turns off the recording, all Eclipse installations are broken, including more recent Eclipse installs, and more recent workspaces, since their ordinary Settings mechanism no longer works reliably. This is how viruses behave, and not good PR for something I assume has many good features.
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| Re: How prevent Eclipse from overwriting its settings with the Oomph user.setup settings? [message #1785731 is a reply to message #1784960] |
Thu, 19 April 2018 06:54 |
Ed Merks
Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009 |
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Note that the fact that you don't bother to answer my questions isn't all that helpful. I helped answer your questions, and I'm willing to make improvements, but when there is no interaction from you in terms of how to have made all of this more clear to you (and the next person), I can only guess. If you have time to criticize, you ought to have time to work toward constructive suggestions for improvements.
My guess at this point is that you enabled the recorder, you didn't bother to read any of the information available, so no amount of additional information would actually help you.
I can imagine that when you disable the recorder, there should/could perhaps be a dialog pointing out that you have recorded preferences (if you actually have) and give you the option to delete (or disable them). Of course it would be annoying to have that dialog come up repeatedly, because a common usage pattern is to enable the recorder only when you make changes you actually want recorded and then to disable it when you don't want the changes you're making to be recorded...
Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/
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